Fountain City Service Base (FCSB) 1st Floor Mississippi River Project Office (MRPO) Renovation Design-Build Construction Project

The United States Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District (Government) is soliciting a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the Fountain City Service Base 1st Floor Office Renovation Project (Project) as Phase I of a two‐phase design‐build selection procedure. This procurement is 100% small business set‐aside and will result in a firm fixed price contract. A two‐phase procurement structure will be used for the Project, consisting of a Phase I Request for Qualifications (RFQ) and a subsequent Phase II Request for Proposals (RFP). The RFQ is being issued to identify, using the criteria and methodology described herein, a shortlist of highly qualified and capable design‐build teams that will be invited to submit technical/price proposals for Phase II (RFP portion). The Government anticipates that three firms will be shortlisted (from the RFQ responses) and invited to submit responses to the RFP; however, the Government reserves the right to shortlist more or fewer firms depending on the responses to the RFQ received. There will be a maximum of five offerors selected to submit Phase II proposals. All Offerors will receive written notice regarding whether or not they were selected to compete in Phase II.

In Phase II, the RFP package will be issued to the shortlisted design‐build teams and will specify technical and pricing criteria. Those selected to compete for Phase II will have approximately 30 calendar days to prepare and submit their Phase II proposals. The Phase II proposals will be evaluated by the Government to select the design‐build contractor for the project.

No site visit will be provided for Phase I. A site visit will be offered to those offerors who are invited to compete in Phase II. The date and time for that site visit will be included in the Phase II RFP.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this action is 236220 Commercial and Institutional Building Construction and the Small Business size standard is $45.0 million in average annual receipts.

See "25RA002 - RFQ - FCSB.pdf" for further details and submission requirements.

06/02/2025 - "25RA002 - RFQ - FCSB amended 06-02-2025.pdf" replaces "25RA002 - RFQ - FCSB.pdf" and allows up to three (3) pages for the construction description for Factor 1 - Technical Approach.

06/11/2025 - "25RA002 - RFQ - FCSB amended 06-11-2025.pdf" replaces "25RA002 - RFQ - FCSB amended 06-02-2025.pdf" and allows up to three (3) pages for the design and construction descriptions for Factor 1 - Technical Approach.

07/03/2025 - "25RA002 - RFQ - FCSB amended 07-03-2025.pdf" replaces "25RA002 - RFQ - FCSB amended 06-11-2025.pdf". This amendment updates the evaluation criteria for the Lead Architect (Factor 4 – Key Personnel, TAB E) by removing the Wisconsin licensing and federal experience requirements.